Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-26
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5rHE NEWS

TILE NEWS -EPIToMlZED.
The funeral OF the late Mrs. Voorhees,
occurred yesterday morning at Terre
Hause.
Frank Holmes was killed and devour-
ed by wolves in Delta county, Michigan,
last week.
Philetus Sawyer has been elected
United States senator in Wisconsin and
VIM. B. Blatt in Tennessee.
The flood season has opened in New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio and the
usual damage is being inflicted.
The fourth annual convention OF the
Illinois state labor association com
menced ct Springfield yesterday.
The resolution in behalf OF woman
suffrage was voted down, thirty-iour to
sixteen, in the United States senate
yesterday.
The British parliament convenes
tomorrow. The queen has read and
approved Of the speech to be delivered
by her on that occasion.
The circulation Of standard silver
dollars lie steady decreasing. The
amount outstanding, $~5s,634,267, is over
$4,000, 600 less than the amount out
standing on the LIST. inst.
a caucus Of the republican members
OF the Pennsylvania legislature has re-
solved TO propose the submission to the
people OF an amendment to the con-
stitution prohibiting the manufacture
and sale OF Intoxicating liquor to be
used as q beverage.
1t is reiterated in Paris that the
rumors OF war in circulation are moor
rect from q military as we'll as from a
diplomatic point of view. B%oulanger,
minister Of war, publishes a denial Of the
report that he was buying horses abroad
for the use Of the army.
II is said that terrible suffering exists
on the Oolvilie reservation, eighty miles
north OF Spokane Falls, Washington
territory, small pox having broken out
in the tribe with great fatality. Deep
NOW has prevented hunting and gov
eminent supplies have been inadequate.
Between l and 2 O'Clock yesterday
morning three masked men entered the
Gull, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad
depot, at Richmond, Texas and, at the
point Of the pistol, compelled Station
AgentiHagen to open the safe. They
secured $4,000 in money and escaped,
The national woman'sss sufftsge asso-
citation met in Washington yesterday for
its nineteenth annual convention. Miss
Susan B. Anthony delivered the opening
address, and at it's conclusion read a
letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stan
ton, president OF the association, who is
now in Europe.
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Chill at the appearance of cholera on its
boundaries, A strict quaraMti1e was
forced against vessels coming from sus.
pested ports and passes on the Argen-
tine frontier were closed, but the dis.
ease, ii appears, has surmounted oil bar.
riers and reached the Pacific slope.
About 400 cesea Of gunpowder e1-
plDded while in transit over the Mis-
souri, Pacific road half q mile west Of
Fort Scott, Kansas, yesterday morning
The train consisted OF twenty-three
freight cars. and fifteen. OF them were
completely demolished and the maya
Eire car Was blown to atoms. One man
was killed.
The Breen bill Tor the suppression o.
vice in the upper peninsula Of Michigan
passed the house unanimously yesterday
morning. The disclosures OF the dance
house horrors induced the house II
give che law immediate effect. It'll
provisions are sweeping. and apply te
disreputable houses throughout the
state.
Lew Vanderpool, war correspondent
oil the Paris Figaro, who served that
paper in the Russo Turkish and othe,
campaigns, and who is at present il
New York, received o cablegram from
the Figaro yesterday saying that wa
is imminent and inevitable, and order
ing him to sail for Paris not later thar
February 1at.
There has been no correspondence
between this country and Nicaragua re-
latiye TO the construction of q ship cans
since 1885, but within the past few day
intelligence has been received that
convention has been signed between
Nicaragua and Costa Rico for til,
arbitration Of their boundary dispute b.
the president of the United States
The cabinet meeting yesterday was at
tended by all the members except th
secretary of war. The principal topic o
discussion was the action OF the senat,
Monday on the Canadian Fisheries
question, in the oourse OF which th,
question arose as to the legality Of Tia
recent seizures of British vessels nea
the seal islands for alleged violations o
She laws regulating the hunting Of seal
ct or near the islands.
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS
Scarlet fever is spreading in Turne
county.
Elk Point has had seventy ~consscutiv
DAYS OF sleiQhino.